#42 in 17 - the round stuff distracted me into sport & tv for a bit but got there in the end
― woof, Thursday, 19 May 2022 09:28 (two years ago) link
I don't mind some of the flakiness, like where the bad redaction gives you clues (dim flattering sense that you would definitely have cracked Enigma), but there's definitely weird stuff around ('hz' not hitting as Will M said upthread; I'm still a bit bothered by saints not hitting saints' but I can see how unredacting apostrophes could be awkward).
Right at the start I would have wanted plurals (or -s appended forms) for free; now, that feels like part of the game and I don't want it.
― woof, Thursday, 19 May 2022 09:41 (two years ago) link
I do like how (in its limited way) Redactle supports different playing styles - some people count letters, some don't; some people stare at the board for 5 minutes before typing their first word, some people dive right in and feel their way around.
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Thursday, 19 May 2022 12:19 (two years ago) link
#42 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Organization with a 'z'
― koogs, Thursday, 19 May 2022 17:09 (two years ago) link
some people dive right in and feel their way around
Speaking of which: I solved today's Redactle (#43) in 321 guesses with an accuracy of 63.55%. I spent a hundred guesses trying to uncover a film career, but once I got to author, I still had a hard time -- no hits for genre/genres, not a modernist, etc. -- and at one point I started guessing common men's names in English, which, given the answer, LOL. I needed children (@319 with 23 hits) to finally get me there.
― Pteredactle (Leee), Thursday, 19 May 2022 17:27 (two years ago) link
Solved this one in 11. figured from all the italics that it had to be a writer, guessed British, and his was one of the first short names I could think of.
― JoeStork, Thursday, 19 May 2022 17:42 (two years ago) link
123, 73% - got science fiction and fantasy writer pretty early but I only know Dahl from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 19 May 2022 17:57 (two years ago) link
took my sweet time feeling and filling my way around and got it in 148 guesses with an accuracy of 81.76% (highest accuracy since Streep’s perfect 100)
― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Thursday, 19 May 2022 17:59 (two years ago) link
Got there in 8. I spotted That Was The Week That Was buried in there, and thought this is a heck of an entry for Frank Muir or Peter Cook. I did try (half) the latter though!
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 19 May 2022 18:04 (two years ago) link
#43You solved it in 10 guessesYour accuracy was 90.00%Globally, 4294 players have solved today's Redactle so far
went for early glory with Marco...
United is a handy word, given that it matches States or Kingdom. both here...
― koogs, Thursday, 19 May 2022 18:09 (two years ago) link
all that time mike has spent watching Tales of the Unexpected has finally paid off...
― koogs, Thursday, 19 May 2022 18:10 (two years ago) link
20, 85% - I spotted that was the week that was but that was the clue that was no help; guessing 'world' gave me (danny) the (champion) of the world.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Thursday, 19 May 2022 18:51 (two years ago) link
#43 in 23 guesses with an accuracy of 91.30%
my first time counting letters, which definitely was the key here
― rob, Thursday, 19 May 2022 19:04 (two years ago) link
― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Thursday, May 19, 2022 10:59 AM (one hour ago)
similar -- 156 guesses, 87% accuracy
― sarahell, Thursday, 19 May 2022 19:05 (two years ago) link
2!
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Thursday, 19 May 2022 20:13 (two years ago) link
Nice one!
I did it in 9. Novelist > British > poet > war > novel > e > India > Roald > Dahl
― Alba, Thursday, 19 May 2022 20:38 (two years ago) link
I saw what looked like That Was The Week That Was too but that didn't help me, sadly
― Alba, Thursday, 19 May 2022 20:39 (two years ago) link
got it in 53 took me way too long to remember children's literature is a thing. however i am proud that i could see "He served in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War" without guessing anything, which makes me feel very smart. (though i did guess "royal" to be sure)
― ✖, Thursday, 19 May 2022 22:02 (two years ago) link
it was the list along the lines of "The _____, The _____ and _____ and the _____ _____" that tipped me off
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Thursday, 19 May 2022 22:59 (two years ago) link
oh nice seandalai - chaotic 13 here - spotted 'That was the week that was' in there & took an initial punt on Peter Cook (Probably not US-famous enough to be a sensible guess?), then ground it out. Lucky even on 13 tbh - I was puzzling out '_____-_____ writer' in the definition and thought 'young-adult???' which pointed me to the answer. It was 'short-story writer', of course.
― woof, Friday, 20 May 2022 12:57 (two years ago) link
xphaha those lists were just making my smart brain tell my dumb brain 'no, still not CS Lewis'
― woof, Friday, 20 May 2022 12:59 (two years ago) link
2, 100%
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 20 May 2022 16:10 (two years ago) link
In 3! Wasted one on England! For some reason my mind went Ethelred the Unready … Alexander the Great … Ming the Merciless … Conan the Barbarian err, now I’m stuck let’s stick something in
― Alba, Friday, 20 May 2022 16:16 (two years ago) link
#43 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Dahl
― koogs, Friday, 20 May 2022 16:16 (two years ago) link
#44You solved it in 2 guessesYour accuracy was 100.00%Globally, 1450 players have solved today's Redactle so far
1450 solvers in the 20 minutes it's been live...
― koogs, Friday, 20 May 2022 16:22 (two years ago) link
my first through was Suleiman the Magnificent but I actually counted letters for once
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 20 May 2022 16:25 (two years ago) link
3 - went with Richard at first.
― Michael Jones, Friday, 20 May 2022 16:38 (two years ago) link
I solved today's Redactle (#44) in 9 guesses with an accuracy of 100.00%.
still getting into this game, but pleased with this result
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 20 May 2022 16:38 (two years ago) link
2, disappointed it wasn't fungus the bogeyman
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Friday, 20 May 2022 16:52 (two years ago) link
solved #44 in 43 (74.42%)
― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Friday, 20 May 2022 17:11 (two years ago) link
18 / 77%
Happy any time I get under a hundred guesses, counting the letters probably could've saved me a couple wasted guesses but otherwise a lot easier (for me) today.
― Pteredactle (Leee), Friday, 20 May 2022 18:12 (two years ago) link
21 guesses, 100% accuracy -- Probably the most focused on getting it in the fewest number of guesses than in the past ... my first guess was "great" and it only returned 3 words, so I assumed it was a British person and not a Russian one. then I guessed "war" and it only returned 2 ... then I went with "his" and "he" to determine the gender of the person, and if in fact, it was a person and not a thing or place. Though, at that point, I could have wracked my brain for historical British rulers that didn't go to "war" and only engaged in "battle" (25 results)... I figured I would just guess common names of British royalty ... William, Henry, Edward
― sarahell, Friday, 20 May 2022 19:47 (two years ago) link
4Wasted one on England!went with Richard at first.
Wasted one on England!
went with Richard at first.
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Friday, 20 May 2022 20:13 (two years ago) link
ah nuts :(
any mod around?
In 2.
― woof, Saturday, 21 May 2022 14:14 (two years ago) link
English-centric for a change. but these aren't fun. prefer it when it takes about 100.
― koogs, Saturday, 21 May 2022 15:25 (two years ago) link
#44 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_the_Conqueror
― koogs, Saturday, 21 May 2022 16:14 (two years ago) link
#45You solved it in 3 guessesYour accuracy was 100.00%Globally, 755 players have solved today's Redactle so far
wasted one on a word that was obvious
― koogs, Saturday, 21 May 2022 16:25 (two years ago) link
I solved today's Redactle (#45) in 35 guesses with an accuracy of 60.00%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/
Back to back days under 100, I think this thread has made me a little more circumspect about filling out some sentences, as well as having a better feel for when the answer is more generalized.
Theory at 2 led me to evolution and biological and I spent several guesses exploring scientific concepts before I entered patent, child, inheritance, and legal.
― Pteredactle (Leee), Saturday, 21 May 2022 16:25 (two years ago) link
all the -in-??? stuff was obviously -in-law. then marriage which was in the first paragraph. then the answer
― koogs, Saturday, 21 May 2022 16:29 (two years ago) link
18, 100%
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 21 May 2022 17:34 (two years ago) link
Best yet, still a long way off woof and koogs. I solved today's Redactle (#45) in 15 guesses with an accuracy of 80.00%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 21 May 2022 17:35 (two years ago) link
Redactle #45 in 22 with 81% accuracy Bit more fun, koogs!
― Alba, Saturday, 21 May 2022 18:29 (two years ago) link
2! Similar logic to koogs
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Saturday, 21 May 2022 19:31 (two years ago) link
3 by total luck
just glancing over it i thought it would be related to science, especially with the first sentence starting with "In" which makes me think "In (scientific field or proces), (word) is etc." wasted a guess on "volume," then tried "law" as in "law of physics or whatever," which opened up all the in-laws.
― ✖, Saturday, 21 May 2022 19:46 (two years ago) link
33 guesses the syntax first made me think it was about a game, then it looked like it might be about language and dialect, then i ended up with "one (or more) people" and I guessed the term, not knowing it was the right answer, but because a current project at work is related to how said term is defined for the purpose of zoning and building classifications
― sarahell, Saturday, 21 May 2022 20:00 (two years ago) link
23 despite spotting in-law straight away and getting birth and marriage not long after. I blame the two beers I've had.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Saturday, 21 May 2022 21:23 (two years ago) link
51 guesses for me. lol at me spending a lot of time guessing every kind of relation i could think of after getting “law” before zooming out for the answer
― donna rouge, Saturday, 21 May 2022 22:37 (two years ago) link
that 2 up upthread was #44 - same as everyone - lettercounted, picked a sane Something the Something historical figure & checked that it made sense against the text (plausible 'William I' in the first sentence). Completely forgot about Richard the Lionheart/Richard I but I think would have stuck with William after scrutinising the article.
#45 - 1 - very happy with that after a long time looking at it - -in-law was the big clue, which had me humming and hawing over wedding/marriage stuff but reluctant to try a 7 when it felt gettable. Spotted the section that (from the hyphens) seemed to be explaining the rules around 'great-" and "great-grand". Went in on the big topic and hit.
― woof, Saturday, 21 May 2022 22:45 (two years ago) link